July
And...
I would definitely get My Beautiful Laundrette and Hiroshima, Mon Amour as I've never seen those films but.... Moonrise Kingdom.... I need that one. So I guess The Grand Budapest Hotel will come to Criterion in about a few years. Cool.
Moonrise Kingdom has been pushed back to September 22nd.
Coming to Criterion in August.... a new DVD/Blu-Ray upgrade of Jule Dassin's Night and the City plus The French Lieutenant's Woman, Dressed to Kill by Brian de Palma, an Eclipse Series box set of the films by Agnes Varda in California, Day for Night by Francois Truffaut (FUCK YEAH!!!) and the Dardenne Brothers' Two Days, One Night (OUI OUI!!!!!)
September
And...
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That artwork for Moonrise Kingdom is a total win. The one I want the most is Blind Chance as it's one of several pre-Decalogue era Kieslowski that I haven't seen (aside from some shorts).
OCTOBER
The Brood and Mulholland Drive! I'll be getting those for sure. Also picked up The Fisher King on the Barnes and a Noble Criterion sale!
The Brood and Kwaidan are ones I do want as I already have My Own Private Idaho. Yet, when I heard Mulholland Dr. was coming out.... I went fanboy over it and cried happily.
Kwaidan and Mulholland Drive for sure.
November
I knew The Apu Trilogy was coming as it was announced months earlier so it's now official. I'm excited about that, Code Unknown, and Dont Look Back.
It is insane that it took this long to print Ikiru on blu ray.
And Dont Look Back! No fucking way!
December
Kinda underwhelming, don't you think? I'm sure a lot of these are amazing films but I was expecting something big.
December's been known to be an uneventful month for them, after the big months October and November are.
Downhill Racer is pretty good. Don't think Redford's ever been more unlikable.
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i'm stoked for the burrougs film. some recent additions to my collection are 'band of outsiders' and 'secret honor.' i've only started 'secret honor,' i guess i was in a wrong mood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bande_%C3%A0_part_%28film%29
this film is worth a decent amount of money. i got it for half the amount it's worth at a bazaar.
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yeah but I'm waiting for a major box set with a bunch of special features plus A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love as part of the series.
I just saw that The Brood will get the criterion treatment, so stoked! Their Videodrome and Scanners releases were flawless (still have to get my hands on Naked Lunch).
Just watched Black Moon from the collection. Has anyone seen it. Very strange. I think I liked it?
I don't like the Mulholland Dr. artwork. I mean, I get the concept, but it looks lazy. They just blurred the original poster. I would have removed Watts and Harring altogether and just leave a black sky with stars. But that's just me.
January
Llewyn's bonus features seem fantastic, too:
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION:
- New 4K digital transfer, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New audio commentary featuring writers Robert Christgau, David Hajdu, and Sean Wilentz
- The First Hundred Feet, the Last Hundred Feet, a new conversation between filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and directors Joel and Ethan Coen about the evolution of their approach, from Blood Simple to Inside Llewyn Davis
- Inside “Inside Llewyn Davis,” a forty-five-minute 2013 documentary
- Another Place, Another Time (2014), a 101-minute film documenting an Inside Llewyn Davis tribute concert, featuring Joan Baez, Mumford & Sons, Punch Brothers, Gillian Welch, Jack White, and others
- New piece on the history of “Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song),” featuring music producer T Bone Burnett and the Coens
- New piece about Dave Van Ronk and the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early sixties, featuring music writer and historian Elijah Wald
- Sunday, a short 1961 documentary by Dan Drasin about the riots that took place in Washington Square Park after folk musicians were prevented from gathering and playing there
- Trailers
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Kent Jones
Inside Llewyn Davis... one of the Coen's toughest pills to swallow. And I've seen Fargo and No Country for Old Men.
Plus... commentary by Robert Christgau? That was unexpected.